| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6663.95 | 209 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2100.9 | 156 |
| 3 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1220.33 | 36 |
| 4 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 772.01 | 22 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 747.88 | 27 |
| 6 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 730.76 | 161 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 682.99 | 27 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 657.62 | 24 |
| 9 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 655.83 | 67 |
| 10 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 580.51 | 22 |
| 11 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 520.37 | 11 |
| (11) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 509.51 | 13 |
| 12 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 478.17 | 15 |
| 13 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 450.03 | 15 |
| 14 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 442.02 | 13 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 439.51 | 23 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 432.26 | 20 |
| 17 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 427.34 | 93 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 420.65 | 21 |
| 19 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 409.66 | 16 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 406.24 | 17 |
| 21 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 399.25 | 30 |
| (21) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 392.67 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 391.77 | 13 |
| 23 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 370.59 | 24 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 368.53 | 11 |
| 25 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 362.26 | 16 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 355.51 | 19 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 338.69 | 26 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 322.96 | 29 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 320.4 | 24 |
| 29 | CESifo | München, Germany | 320.14 | 38 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 314.8 | 25 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 311.32 | 29 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 304.85 | 32 |
| (32) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 290.38 | 19 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 288.89 | 20 |
| 34 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 287.23 | 26 |
| 35 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 273.06 | 55 |
| (35) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 272.96 | 11 |
| 36 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 265.51 | 17 |
| 37 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 265.36 | 7 |
| 38 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 258.45 | 12 |
| 39 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 250.62 | 12 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 241.97 | 25 |
| (40) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 236.89 | 15 |
| (40) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 235.41 | 15 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 233.61 | 15 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 223.95 | 18 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 223.78 | 21 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 211.08 | 9 |
| (44) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 208.85 | 3 |
| 45 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 199.9 | 25 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 199.23 | 23 |
| 47 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 198.28 | 65 |
| 48 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 191.34 | 11 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 190.44 | 20 |
| 50 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 185.8 | 5 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 184.74 | 19 |
| 52 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 180.57 | 16 |
| (52) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 179.07 | 3 |
| 53 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 177.13 | 8 |
| (53) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 174.75 | 14 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 169.54 | 10 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 164.98 | 18 |
| 56 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 162.81 | 3 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 161.09 | 27 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 160.95 | 22 |
| 59 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 159.93 | 6 |
| 60 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 159.92 | 8 |
| (60) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 159.22 | 7 |
| 61 | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 158.72 | 7 |
| (61) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 158.46 | 6 |
| 62 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 155.89 | 11 |
| (62) | Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 153.6 | 8 |
| 63 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 150.62 | 6 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 150.38 | 10 |
| 65 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 147.42 | 21 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 143.73 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 143.41 | 18 |
| (67) | Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 136.67 | 3 |
| (67) | Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 136.37 | 2 |
| 68 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 130.02 | 24 |
| 69 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 129.5 | 12 |
| 70 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 128.72 | 7 |
| 71 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 128.65 | 32 |
| 72 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 127.57 | 8 |
| (72) | Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 127.04 | 1 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 126.68 | 9 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 125.5 | 14 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 122.27 | 10 |
| 76 | Rochester Center for Economic Research (RCER), University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 119.99 | 3 |
| (76) | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 119 | 1 |
| 77 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 118.44 | 11 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 116.5 | 8 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 116.02 | 8 |
| 80 | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 115.35 | 9 |
| (80) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 114.72 | 24 |
| (80) | Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 112.73 | 3 |
| 81 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 111.52 | 44 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 109.8 | 13 |
| (82) | Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 107.51 | 3 |
| (82) | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 106.68 | 5 |
| 83 | School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 104.62 | 5 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 103.53 | 16 |
| 85 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet | Stockholm, Sweden | 102.66 | 5 |
| (85) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 102.4 | 12 |
| (85) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 101.78 | 7 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 100.96 | 6 |
| 87 | Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland (USA) | 99.13 | 6 |
| 88 | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 98.99 | 7 |
| (88) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 98.99 | 7 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 97.45 | 29 |
| 90 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 96.51 | 10 |
| 91 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 95.23 | 19 |
| 92 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 94.96 | 14 |
| 93 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 92.2 | 14 |
| 94 | William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 91.39 | 7 |
| (94) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 91.24 | 6 |
| (94) | Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 90.32 | 7 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 89.77 | 15 |
| 96 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 89.59 | 16 |
| 97 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 88.91 | 38 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 88.83 | 7 |
| 99 | Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | San Francisco, California (USA) | 88.02 | 7 |
| (99) | Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 87.77 | 2 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 86.75 | 14 |
| 101 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 84.45 | 8 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 84.45 | 8 |
| 102 | Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo | Tokyo, Japan | 83.93 | 9 |
| 103 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 83.65 | 38 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 82.83 | 10 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 82.83 | 8 |
| 106 | Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University | Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 81.57 | 7 |
| (106) | Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 80.7 | 5 |
| (106) | Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 78.79 | 3 |
| (106) | Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 78.76 | 2 |
| 107 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 78.32 | 11 |
| (107) | Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 78.01 | 10 |
| (107) | Economics Group, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 77.52 | 5 |
| 108 | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles | Bruxelles, Belgium | 77.06 | 9 |
| 109 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 76.28 | 16 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Iowa | Iowa City, Iowa (USA) | 76.24 | 11 |
| (110) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 75.85 | 11 |
| 111 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 74.89 | 26 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 74.04 | 13 |
| (112) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 72 | 7 |
| 113 | International Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Université de Genève | Genève, Switzerland | 71.26 | 5 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 70.12 | 13 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 69.13 | 14 |
| 116 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 68.96 | 14 |
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